TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 15 people were killed, including a controversial religious scholar, and 10 others wounded after a car bomb exploded followed by heavy gunfire in central Somalia, police and officials said.

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Palestine and Russia are expected to sign an agreement, in the near future, exempting Palestinian products exported to Russia from customs, according the Palestinian ambassador to Russia.

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Israeli forces set up military checkpoints and closed several roads to Palestinian traffic, on Sunday, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Salfit, after a shooting attack, in which two Israeli settlers were killed, while the third was severely injured, near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel.

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A suicide car bombing by terrorist group al Shabaab hit a European Union armored convoy in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, damaging one vehicle but causing no casualties, police and the militants said.